Journalisten van de NYT spannen rechtzaak aan tegen DHS

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Nuff is nuff.

Courthouse News Service - Homeland Security Stiffs Times Reporters
9 december 2013 - MANHATTAN (CN) - Two New York Times reporters sued the Department of Homeland Security for records on their interrogations at JFK Airport this year. The DHS claims the records do not exist, though one reporter claims his interview was entered on a computer. The reporters want to see the documents. They are represented by Times staff attorneys David McCraw and D. Victoria Baranetsky.

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iets meer duiding, iets minder plaatjes zou duidelijker zijn.

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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Havanna

iets meer duiding, iets minder plaatjes zou duidelijker zijn.

Twee journalisten van de NYT werden op de JFK-luchthaven door DHS gescheiden en apart ondervraagd tijdens hun vertrek naar het buitenland, tijdens hun terugkomst werden ze opnieuw op die luchthaven door DHS aangepakt.

Deze journalisten willen nu het verslag van die ondervragingen bekomen en publiek maken, maar DHS beweert dat er geen documenten ivm. die gebeurtenissen bestaan. Pers moet vrij kunnen handelen en berichten, DHS heeft geen recht hun daarin te hinderen/intimideren (persvrijheid).

Dat kon U dan ook lezen in het voorvermeld artikel in de OP.

DHS & TSA, brothers in arms.


Enige beelden kunnen heel wat verduidelijken en spreken soms 1000-den woorden.

Alsof de TSA niet zou volstaan :









Alle Amerikaanse reguliere media berichten over dit verhaal.


Nog, genomen uit POLITICO

Two New York Times reporters are suing the Department of Homeland Security for records of a questioning they say occurred at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport earlier this year.

According to the lawsuit, both Mac William Bishop and Christopher (C.J.) Chivers were held and questioned at JFK before they were set to board flights to Turkey for assignments in Syria about the civil war there. Bishop was also questioned on his return to the United States.

In a statement to POLITICO, a Times Company lawyer said DHS had yet to provide adequate responses to their requests for the records, which were filed under the Freedom of Information Act.

"We want to be sure that our journalists are not being targeted by DHS for special scrutiny or having their activities monitored by the government when they are engaged in reporting," David McCraw, Vice President & Assistant General Counsel of The New York Times Company wrote. "DHS has failed to provide adequate responses to our FOIA requests seeking whatever information DHS employees were working from in initiating the questioning and whatever information they gathered in the questioning. That led to this lawsuit."

The FOIA requests were transferred from DHS to TSA, but according to Courthouse News TSA said it had lost Bishop's letter requesting the records.

Chivers is a senior reporter for the Times on the Foreign and Investigative desks and frequently posts for the At War blog. Bishop is a video and multimedia journalist at the Times.

De in de OP geplaatste figuren verwijzen duidelijk naar de persvrijheid.
Als we in rekening brengen dat deze twee journalisten wilden berichten over Syrie en Turkije, dan wordt het meer dan duidelijk dat de Amerikaanse overheid opnieuw vuil spel speelt, blijkbaar willen ze het een en ander verbergen...

Gescreend worden door TSA is trouwens reeds meer dan voldoende om 'veiligheid te garanderen'.

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Witte Huis-journalist Bob Franken: De Obama-administratie is de meest personvriendelijke (lees: vijandige) administratie ooit.

Bizpacreview - Reporter tells MSNBC Obama administration ‘most hostile to the media . . . in US history’
1 december 2013 - The Obama administration is quick to celebrate the historic significance of just about every action it takes, but the White House is unlikely to embrace the claim that it’s the “most hostile” in U.S. history when it comes to freedom of the press. Nevertheless, that is precisely the charge being leveled by former White House reporter Bob Franken. “The reason I say most hostile is because of the Justice Department moves that they’ve made against the press,” Franken continued. “Obviously, they have a contempt for the journalistic process.” An incredible statement considering just how favorable the media has been to Barack Obama, but even more so that is occurred on MSNBC. As for Franken, it may be a while before you see his mug on the pro-Obama network again.

Video MSNBC Bob Franken

Zullen we Bob Franken spoedig terugzien in de reguliere media aka MSM?

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Nooit eerder gezien aantal vervolgingen van journalisten en in beslagnames van documenten onder de Obama-administratie.


Tulsa World - Report: Obama brings chilling effect on journalism
10 oktober 2013 - WASHINGTON — The U.S. government's aggressive prosecution of leaks and efforts to control information are having a chilling effect on journalists and government whistle-blowers, according to a report released Thursday on U.S. press freedoms under the Obama administration. The Committee to Protect Journalists conducted its first examination of U.S. press freedoms amid the Obama administration's unprecedented number of prosecutions of government sources and seizures of journalists' records. Usually the group focuses on advocating for press freedoms abroad.

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Nog :

HLN - Witte Huis bedreigt journalist voor kritisch artikel over staatsschuld

Dagelijkse Standaard - Witte Huis bedreigt journalisten

NOS - Fotograaf Witte Huis te machtig (lees: de propagandafotograaf van het WH)

Onder dictator Obama mogen de Amerikaanse journalisten niet zomaar schrijven/bekendmaken wat ze willen, dat is ondertussen wel duidelijk.